The code for ~/.conkyrc below fails only on Mint Debian Cinnamon. It works correctly on Xubuntu 12.04, Mint Debian XFCE, Mint Debian Mate, SolusOS, and Mint 13 XFCE. In all cases the command "conky -d -p 5" is placed in auto start. This tells me that nothing more is required to get conky to work, and therefore the failure of Mint Debian Cinnamon points to a Cinnamon bug or design flaw. (of course the text strings for title and partition are modified appropriately). Is this being worked on?

this is not a specif-cinnamon issue: it's related with the way the desktop is handled in gnome3 (cinnamon, gnome-shell): if the file manager handles (or not) the desktop. here viewforum.php?f=212 you should find some topics about this.

zerozero wrote:this is not a specif-cinnamon issue: it's related with the way the desktop is handled in gnome3 (cinnamon, gnome-shell): if the file manager handles (or not) the desktop. here viewforum.php?f=212 you should find some topics about this.

Thank you for the reply and the link. I had already searched for and read all of the posts regarding conky. It seemed that there was a peculiarity about Cinnamon that was not shared by the other Mint OSes. Perhaps gnome-shell was an inappropriate vehicle for the development of Cinnamon.